English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 162 of 1086
Someone who travels at speed through the scrub, especially chasing wild or lost livestock.
Any of various wallabies living in dense vegetation, especially the black-striped wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, of eastern Queensland and New South Wales.
A bird of the genus Megapodius; stocky, medium-large chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet.
A plant community characterized by scrub vegetation, consisting of low shrubs, mixed with grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
A player, usually implied to be bad, who strives to enforce their own rules of how a game is to be played, what is and isn't permissible, usually with appeals to honor or morality.
A small bird of the thornbill family, taxonomic name Acanthornis magna, endemic to King Island and Tasmania.
Any of various small, mainly insectivorous passerine birds of genus Sericornis in family Acanthizidae.
In the Scrum framework, a facilitator of a developer team, who is accountable for removing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the product goals and deliverables.
An ordered formation of forwards, typically bending down, binding to one another with their arms, and pushing opponents shoulder to shoulder, in which each side aims to gain control of the ball; a scrum.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 54,294 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 1,086 pages, and you are currently viewing page 162. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "S" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.